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ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B vs North Mini Code
Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated August 2026
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| Organization | ||
| OpenTools Score | 7 | |
| Family | ERNIE | North |
| Status | Current | Current |
| Release Date | Aug 2025 | Jun 2026 |
| Context Window | 120K tokens | 262K tokens |
| Input Price | $0.07/M tokens | Free |
| Output Price | $0.28/M tokens | Free |
| Pricing Notes | — | Cohere's official model documentation states North Mini Code is free for trial and production API keys until rate limits are reached; Model Vault production deployment is also supported. |
| Capabilities | textcode | reasoningagentic-codingtool-usestructured-outputmultilinguallocal-deployment |
| Max Output | 8K tokens | 66K tokens |
| API Identifier | baidu/ernie-4.5-21b-a3b | north-mini-code-1-0 |
| Benchmarks | ||
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1 | — | 20artificial-analysis |
| View ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B | View North Mini Code | |
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| Model | Input | Output | Total / mo | vs Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Mini CodeCheapest | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | — |
| ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B | $0.07 | $0.14 | $0.21 | +0% |
Baidu
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B is a large language model from Baidu. Supports up to 120,000 token context window. Available from $0.07/M input tokens.
Cohere
North Mini Code
North Mini Code is Cohere's open-weight Mixture-of-Experts model for agentic coding, repository-level software engineering, terminal workflows, tool use, and local deployment.
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